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| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit I have completed the ferrite experiments this weekend. My conclusion? Used in moderation, these ferrite rings can reduce interference and have beneficial sonic effects in the following situations: 1.) on DC leads, esp. when on base and collector l... | |
| Wanna hear your soundstage walk around ??? sean. another remarkable forum from you, and a rekindling of my interest in sweep-frequency tests of enclosure performances. Of course, it would be desirable to employ a dual-trace oscilloscope with a microphone, so that the test signal waveform c... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit As previously mentioned, I have been experimenting with ferrite rings and cylinders on OTA this week. Apparatus and procedure: the full range of MFSC rings from MEC were acquired, and attached to different points in the cable infrastructure. Obser... | |
| Tweaks Last time I counted, Slawney was on 52 Vibrapods (from #1 to #5) and about 24 spikes. But there are also air suspension systems tucked here and there. It was on the latter that he started to think of "tweaks" as inseparable from the so-called "con... | |
| European -vs- US high-end This forum seems to have flowed forth in a way that is quite surprising considering that I did not think many people would be interested in it. Many excellent ideas have already been presented. Cornfed, dekay and detlof seem to share a rejection o... | |
| Tweaks Seriously, guys, tweaks are alot different from modifications, and it is worth speculating on their differences. One can easily see how the tweak enables many audiophiles to obey the Law of their Warranty (not to tamper with their component) while... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Detlof, as an analyst, perhaps my answer to the question "girlfriends and wife, how do you cope?" will interest you because it relies on the difference between masculine and feminine attitudes towards listening pleasure. I can clarify this apropos... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit I made up some of the knotted OTA digital cables (80"/40") described by dekay on 11--14--01. These were superior to straight runs of equal-length OTA on digital. The only way I have been able to improve this design is to add an MFSC ferrite ring c... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Pssst! I keep hearing fire trucks outside my window, but no disaster here yet. "Slawney, you are continuosly surprising me with your pioneer spirit!""Pioneer"? I like to think of myself as a full-fledged OTA OTAKU! Sead, please ask Teramura or Kim... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit So far I have used three Storatos power cables in my system. Two 20 ft runs direct from 230 Volt AC wall socket to each VAIC SET monobloc and one 6 ft run between a dedicated-digital power strip to a z-systems digital preamp/equalizer. I will cer... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Ok, sead, no OTA tonearm wire for the time being. I suppose there is no way to soften OTA for this without damaging its sonic performance, and no way to install OTA as tonearm wire without damaging cartridge. Did 47 Labs supply the wire to Miyabi ... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Btw: "The problem is the bare OTA wire itself is too stiff to be a good tonearm wire. The stiffness will play havoc with the tonearm's antiskating." Correct, OTA is stiffer than tonearm cables. But there is a way to spiral it away from the arm tha... | |
| I want to find out more about OTA cable kit See "Sakura Systems OTA cable kit" on the "Cables" forum. I think you will find most of your questions answered there. | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Since the preceding post was written, difficulties with this set-up have emerged due to subtle accumulations of RFI on the tone arm cables. To its credit, PhonoCube has enough sensitivity to render this RFI in the wire more audible than any other ... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Last night I proceeded with a second, more radical OTA phono cable experiment. Purpose: the aim of the experiment was to bypass the Simon York output connector plate/bracket (fitted with insulated gold-plated RCA phono sockets) and connect the Sim... |